VLC Nightly Builds Bring Tweaked Look, New Features

VLC is by far and away the most popular media player on Ubuntu, if not Linux as a whole.

But its interface has never been as slick as it could be.

Thankfully the VLC nightly builds, unstable snapshots of the next release, have brought with them a slightly improved look; sporting a thin blue progress bar, removal of a ‘scrubber’ button, and the hiding of the status bar by default (this can be re-enabled by clicking View > Statusbar).

Other improvements to VLC that are present in this build include: –

‘Pause on last frame’ feature pauses video when minimised, resumes when maximised

Additional subtitles options, including ability to set text outline colour and .sbt format support